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When I was sexuallay assaulted in BCT. With me being from a military family and my dad a career officer, it was extremely difficult

I'll keep it to two things: 1) that special relationship one has with the guy (no women in combat arms when I served) that shares your foxhole, machine-gun crew, or lastly my tank crew. I've tried to call it a different kind of "love". Have found it impossible to explain to those that have never served. 2) that "Top Secret" means "Top Secret". Just because you're family doesn't mean you get to know what I know....ever !

why it pisses me off when the younger people say I cant without even trying. even if I can't do something ill still try to do it. and if I still can't do it ill find someone to show me how or find A book that shows me step by step how.

I came from a military family so there was no real difficulty

Serving my family as well as a entire country honorably is not something everybody understands even if you don't go in harms way the what if is still there when you volunteer to serve. Most everybody I know have close friends but not as close as my brothers and sisters that I served with in the USMC. Camaraderie is more then a friend a close bond that we all had. In some cases more then not we had to rely on each other to survive.

The isolation and the boredom!!

Nothing! I am third generation Army. I enlisted when many cowards ran the other way. I knew it was my path and my honor to serve.

Also to overly share, as a kid, maybe 11, in church I began to read the church service print out when I can upon this bible passage, and I shit you not, the lights went on in my brain and I knew this was one aspect of my purpose in this life.

Psalms 82 verses 3 and 4
Defend weak people and orphans
Protect the rights of the oppressed and the poor.

Rescue weak and need people. Help them escape the power of wicked people.

It was difficult to express the fact that the military is about mission accomplishment and that it may be necessary to put in long hours at work in order to get the job done. It’s not a typical 9-5 job.

They can never understand when I say I never had a job until after I left the service. I did what needed to be done as part of a team and even under the worst situations it was better than being on the outside. That, and how I felt closer to a comrade that I didn't like, than most close friends in the civvy world.

My true feelings in my letters while in Vietnam. Went over with high expectations on the good we were doing and left totally disenfranchised mainly due to the support of the people back home.